Snowdon is a dummy

Yeah--the one showing Obarmy greeting Merkel at the Big Meet. The acting was a bit amateurish I thought. Lots of people can do sheepish grins to order. It was obviously all faked up because she would have clouted him round the ears with her handbag otherwise.

Did you see that one?

I saw a delightful bit of fluff called, Knight and Day. One of those Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz vehicles.

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Did you see that one?

Unfortunately I didn't.

Why don't you test your IQ on Trivia and Word Games my dear? Let's see what you wit is like when unrehearsed.

On Saturday, Spiegel magazine reported that the NSA's Special Collection Service (SCS) had listed Merkel's mobile telephone since 2002, beginning under the George W. Bush administration, and that it had remained on the list weeks before Obama visited Berlin in June.

According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, Obama had told Merkel during a phone conversation on Wednesday that he had not known of the bugging. However, a report in Bild am Sonntag published Sunday cites an unnamed NSA official who said that the US leader instead ordered the program be escalated.

The newspaper reports that Obama knew that the NSA had been spying on Merkel's mobile phone since at least 2010, when NSA chief Keith Alexander personally informed him of the operation.
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In addition to Merkel's mobile phone provided by her conservative political party, the NSA also listened in on a supposedly secure phone that Merkel received during the summer, according to Bild am Sonntag.

Only a special, secure landline phone in her office was reportedly not accessible to electronic tapping.
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The NSA's findings, including the contents of SMS messages and phone calls, were reported directly to the White House and evidence indicates the operation continued until the "immediate past", according to Bild am Sonntag.

Bild am Sonntag also reported that the NSA eavesdropped on Merkel's predecessor, Gerhard Schröder, after then-President George W. Bush launched a spying program in 2002. The newspaper suggested a key reason for the operation was Schröder's refusal to support the Iraq War, and it was simply extended after Merkel took office in 2005.

Spiegel's earlier report had also said that NSA and CIA staff had tapped government communications with high-tech surveillance from the US Embassy in Berlin.

Spiegel cited a Special Collection Service document saying the agency had a "not legally registered spying branch" in the Berlin embassy, the exposure of which would lead to "grave damage for the relations of the United States to another government."

Quoting a secret 2010 document, Spiegel reported that such branches existed in about 80 locations worldwide, including Paris, Madrid, Rome, Prague, Geneva and Frankfurt. The magazine reported that it remained unclear whether the SCS had recorded conversations or just connection data. On Friday, Germany announced that experts considered Merkel's state-related calls safe given that she normally uses encrypted phones.

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And I often test myself

If the USA intercepted cellphones in Germany, they broke German law on German soil. Wiretapping is a crime. Who'd ever done it will get a fair trial.

LOL........

Have you decided that I respect you now? Forget it. I don't.

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And I often test myself

And that is the reason why. I was asking you to allow us to test you.

I checked out the official trailer of K & D on U tube.

It's for kids sucking on lollipops.

By all accounts, Angela Merkel has been genuinely shocked by the revelations. People close to her told the BBC she felt personally affronted. When Barack Obama was in Berlin in June, they did seem to get on well. She is not good at hiding her feelings, and the glum scowl she used to reserve for Silvio Berlusconi, for example, was replaced by a beam of warmth. They were tactile - he would put his arm round her back; she would clutch his elbow. Perhaps the sense of betrayal is all the greater because of her background in the East German communist regime where spying was pervasive. She might have expected it from the Stasi but not from her new best friend.

Others might feel betrayed, too. When the original allegations of widespread phone-tapping emerged, some of Chancellor Merkel's confidantes belittled the problem, saying the criticism of the US had a touch of anti-Americanism and that the surveillance was about terrorism.

These people are now some of the strongest critics of the US. They are also saying that German law has been broken. If the activities of American government employees were investigated by the German authorities, that would make the whole affair harder to damp down. It would be in the system of justice and pursuit would be relentless.

I was not in a serious conversation with you. Whatever made you think that I was.

I really don't understand your laughing here.
Wiretapping is a crime in Germany and we do have laws about it.
It was done from and on German soil.

If the USA intercepted cellphones in Germany, they broke German law on German soil. Wiretapping is a crime. Who'd ever done it will get a fair trial.